Video 1: Good Advice and Getting Started
In this video you'll learn some basic ways to start your songwriting and use those skills to write a verse that gives a vital piece of advice to your younger self.
Inspiration Tracks:
- Slow Down - India.Arie - Voyage to India (2002)
- Conversations with my 13 year-old self - P!NK - I'm Not Dead (2006)
- Everybody's Free (to Wear Sunscreen) - Baz Luhrmann - single (1999)
Video 2: Moments and Metaphors
In this video we explore how we can use our powerful descriptive skills to travel through time and take the listener with us.
- Saint Honesty - Sara Bareilles - Amidst the Chaos (2019)
- Castle on the Hill - Ed Sheeran - Divide (2017)
- The Best of Times - Sage Francis - Li(f)e (2010)
Video 3: Power of Perspective
In this final video of the series; you will use all of the skills learned so far to set your writing and imagination free and share with the listener a change you wish to see in the world.
- Put Him Out - Ms. Dynamite - A Little Deeper (2003)
- Same Love - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - The Heist (2012)
- Crazy World - MNEK - Language (2018)